I’ve deleted zig.news, the plan is to re-create it as a link aggregator in the future.
In the meantime if anybody here had anything published on it that they would like to publish elsewhere (ideally a personal blog, wink wink), there’s a dump of all articles here: GitHub - kristoff-it/old-zig-news-dump: Public articles posted to the first iteration of zig.news
Written in zig, right?
Yes and everything else like ziggit should also be written in Zig. Like https://forum.nim-lang.org/
Even the discord chat should be written in Zig and self-hosted with sqlite backups. lol.
Since Zig is a niche community, the scale shouldn’t be an issue for the first year or so, plus Zig servers already handle crazy amount of scale on a low-end hardware.
I think with basic Deepseek or GLM this is possible within a month or so. If you want to collaborate, let me know. Any inspiration would be helpful.
Specially with the idea of an all-in-one forum (SEO) + chat.
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I’m thinking of deploying lobsters on zig.news. Creating a site like that from scratch is obviously doable but at the same time lobsters really checks all the feature boxes that I care about.
I would rather spend my effort into writing a Discord from scratch (which is something I’ve already started working on).
I think I’ll try to deploy it today on stream.
can we consider something compatible with fediverse?
If anyone want’s to volunteer to build and maintain the frontend, I’d be happy to volunteer to build the backend for a lobsters clone written in zig.
I can help with the front-end. I want to but do it in 100% Zig even for the front-end (wasm). Since we already have the two platforms (Discourse and Discord) and they are running at the moment. There is no hurry.
We can enjoy the process.
Lol, I love the idea of using zig-wasm for the frontend! That’s a fantastic idea!